EMC’s Cloud Storage to accomodate tons of VMs with V-Max
By Tarry Singh at 15 April, 2009, 1:11 pm
EMC Corp. today unveiled a high-end Symmetrix storage array that is based on Intel Corp.’s x86 quad-core processors and integrates VMware’s APIs to automate the provisioning of storage for virtual machines across multiple tiers of disk drives, from solid-state to SATA.
The new V-Max array, with its Symmetrix Virtual Matrix Architecture, scales to 2 petabytes of usable capacity within a single chassis and offers three times the performance of the current Symmetrix DMX-4 array.
EMC said that its use of industry-standard processors and VMware’s hypervisor enables the system to scale up to hundreds of thousands of terabytes of storage and tens of millions of I/O operations per second supporting hundreds of thousands of VMware and other virtual machines in a single, pooled storage infrastructure.
“This is the most significant change to the Symmetrix architecture since we introduced it 18 years ago,” said Barb Robidoux, vice president of storage product marketing at EMC.
Not only can the Symmetrix V-Max virtualize disk storage within the array, but it can also cobble together multiple chassis and manage them as if from a single pool of storage. The array can automate the provisioning of data across solid-state disks, Fibre Channel and Serial ATA drives within a single frame.
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